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At Last: A Draft UN Treaty on Business and Human Rights
Longtime guest poster Doug Cassel comments on the recently released draft of a treaty on business and human rights. Drafting a viable, meaningful, United Nations treaty on business and human rights would be daunting in the best of circumstances. It is even more challenging in the context of the current effort underway in Geneva. The……
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Chevron Wins. What Now?
In this, the first of a series of responses to the RICO judgment in Chevron v. Donziger by representatives or allies of the protagonists, Chevron advocate Doug Cassel takes a victory lap and, in the last paragraph, holds out an olive branch. Two starkly differing narratives compete to explain the Lago Agrio environmental lawsuit against……
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Lago Agrio: Doug Cassel on the New Ecuadoran Judgment
Here is Letters Blogatory contributor and Chevron advocate Doug Cassel on the recent Ecudaoran judgment. I comment below the post. To update the late Senator Everett Dirksen of Illinois, “$9 billion here, $9 billion there—pretty soon you’re talking real money.” In manipulating their $19 billion Lago Agrio judgment against Chevron (reduced last week to a……
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Doug Cassel on the New Partial Arbitral Award
Chevron advocate, professor of law, and friend-of-Letters-Blogatory Doug Cassel weighs in on the new arbitral award in the Chevron-Ecuador investment treaty arbitration. In his recent post on the new arbitral award in the Chevron-Ecuador investment treaty arbitration, Ted Folkman wondered, first, whether Chevron “will seek to use the ultimate arbitral award as the basis for……
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Response to Ted Folkman
In his various comments on the symposium contributions, our host Ted Folkman makes three points to which I respond here. Case-Specific Exceptions Generally First, Ted questions whether case-specific grounds for non-enforcement of foreign judgments are needed, so long as the systemic inadequacy of a foreign judicial system is a ground for non-enforcement. If the foreign……